s when I was asked by the person in charge of the adult Sunday school at our church to teach a class on apologetics. I must admit I had no idea why we needed to apologize for Christianity. Turns out I wasn’t apologizing but defending the faith. Suddenly a whole new world opened up...
Jesus starts in Revelation 6:1-2 with what I see as a bit of a surprise in His undoing of a first seal on a vitally important scroll. These verses read: 1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts...
James’ next topic is faith, and this is where he steps on some Protestant toes. This is why Luther wanted James out of his Bible. Consider these two verses back-to-back. First, this is from Paul, in Galatians 2:16: But we know that a person is not justified by works, but by fa...
Gold is referenced more often in the Bible than any other metal. It is mentioned already in the story of Adam and Eve in the second book of Genesis, verses 11-12, speaking of the land of Havilah "where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good." Silver first appears in Gen...
So what verses of the Quran do you pick and choose what you believe?: “9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege t...